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Help! can't get my almost 4 year old go potty.

My soon to be 4 year old daughter refuses to go potty. She will only wear pull-ups, she says she's scared of the potty and screams when you bring up the subject.

We tried the potty chart with stickers, The special present if she goes potty, she has her own potty chair.

Any Advice would be appreciated.

She has no been going Potty for about 1month with no accidents (YEAH!).

Thank You Everyone for all the great Advice.

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Written by Tina

Posted on 03/17/2009

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posted by Vero on 03/18/2009

Well if you have time to give her some "free" time that works wonders. I have six children and it just seemed as though they didn't have accidents during their "free" time or at least they where signifigantly less. Other methods I have tried....

-Inviting the child to use the bathroom when you are using it so both of you all are sitting together.
-Buying a character themed pot that your child likes that simulates the real flushing sounds of the toilet.
-Buying a toilet "donut" cushioned seat so that she feels like a "big" girl like mommy sitting up high and she still wont feel like she is going to fall in the toilet.(lol)

posted by Brandy on 03/20/2009

Give the child responsibility for her accidents.
1. Put her in panties during the day.
2. If she goes in her panties...have her remove her panties...have her put them in the dirty laundry, have her clean herself, then have her go find herself some clean panties.
This routine will quickly get old, and she will go potty.
I've seen this work sucessfully many, many times.

posted by Karen on 03/21/2009

i'm actually working on potty training now...i have gotten some useful advice that has been working for my daughter she isn't completely potty trained..but she is very close....we sit on the potty together and she likes to tell me to go potty so i just pretend with her...and we always do a potty dance..even when i go to the bathroom she does a dance b/c "mommy went pee pee in the potty" making a song and dance for yourself when u go potty might make her excited to create her own potty dance and song. I also put her in big girl underwear b/c she does not like to be wet or poopy. i hope you get you lil one potty trained soon. good luck!

posted by Ashley on 03/22/2009

If your daughter loves chocolate, then you should tell her that if she pee pees in the potty that she will get some chocolate. I bought hershey's kisses and everytime my son went pee pee he got one chocolate and if he poo pood he got two chocolates. It worked well with him along with the potty dance and lots of praise. "Oh, mommy so proud of you, I can't believe you pee peed on the potty all by yourself" "What a big boy you are."

posted by Sheryl on 05/21/2009

The advice that worked for me was to not make a huge deal about it and tell her to let you know when she's ready. By putting the ball in her court, it gives her the control and independence, which four year olds need to think they have. With our son, I didn't make a big deal about it, and he was trained in a day. I'd put it on the back burner. She'll come around! After all, very few kids start kindergarten untrained!

posted by MKMama on 05/22/2009

My daughter was potty trained in two days but, now I watched a girl that had problems with it. It had nothing to do with the child. This child was at daycare during the day and was told she could only go pee when it was pee time. Then on the weekends she went to her dads and he forbid diapers/pull ups so, she went pee like a big girl....when she got home to her moms she wore pull ups non stop and told everyone she was momma's little baby. I watched this little one for one week and the only problems I had was telling her she didn't need pull ups and neither did mom....I had the little one throw 'em in the trash and I took her to buy some cute little undies...myself and her father informed the daycare and her mom on what should be done and within a month the little one was totally out of pull ups. Pull ups are diapers people and that is that. Don't confuse your child....make buying undies fun and a big girl thing. We don't need to play mind tricks or bribe our kids...just help 'em grow up.

posted by Amy on 05/22/2009

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